So goodbye and thank you to all the people who looked at the blog. I hope you enjoyed it.  I hope I have a blog next year!

1. In the book, it states that on the Kansas prairie there are no other houses in sight. In the movie, there are many other houses, and also other characters that resemble characters in the land of Oz.
2. In the book, the slippers from the Wicked Witch of the East are silver. In the movie, they are ruby.
3. In the book, Dorothy doesn’t meet the Wicked Witch of the West until later in the book, when Oz tells her to kill the witch. In the movie, Dorothy meets her when the west witch is at the body of the Witch of the East.
4. In the movie, there are a more songs than there are in the book.
5. There are less obstacles along the yellow brick road in the movie.
6. In the book, Dorothy, the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion get stuck in the poppy field and are rescued by the field mice. In the movie, the field mice don’t exist, and Dorothy is rescued by Glinda, who, in the movie, is the Witch of the North, and not the Witch of the South.
7. Oz says in the book that Dorothy & Co (Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin man, and the Lion) have to kill the Wicked Witch of the West. In the movie, they only have to bring her broom.
8. The great head that only appears for Dorothy in the book appears to all of Dorothy & Co in the movie. This is because all of the characters met Oz at the same time in the movie, unlike the book.
9. I don’t need to write about what happened in the Witch of the West’s castle. If you’ve read the book and watched the movie, you know the differences, and there are too many to say right now.
10. In the book, at the part where the wizard goes up in a balloon, Dorothy goes to the south to find Glinda. In the movie, Glinda floats up in a bubble.
11. THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE OF THEM ALL: In the book, the story is real. In the movie, it is a dream.

I think the movie is only an average adaptation of the book. Maybe the slipper color should have stayed the same. I don’t see the point of changing it. I can understand why they made some of the changes above. Since the film was made in 1939, it might have been hard to make special effects. Most of the special effects today are no big deal. But others that were above didn’t even involve special effects. I don’t understand why they changed them.

If I was asked who I would rather travel with: Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), or Dorothy, I would say that I would rather travel with Dorothy, because (no offense to the people who disagree) Alice, if she has a problem, always is going to give up and say, “Oh, no! What should I do?” It’s my opinion that if Dorothy had the same problem, she would actually try to find an answer to it. I like a character who will find solutions to things.

I like both the book and the movie. All the non-flesh characters were quite interesting, especially how L. Frank Baum (the author), makes them have origins, since Baum says “they were formed by… (e.x. The Scarecrow was made by a farmer and put on a pole, but the farmer forgot to give him a brain.) The plot was also interesting. It was the same in both the book and the movie. There are other books in the series. There are fourteen books in total. My favorite is called Ozma of Oz. It is the third in the series. I hope someone will make a movie out of all the other books also.

This Alice in Wonderland project has been very fun.  Using Comic Life was probably the best part of it.  You can download it here.  Oops, that’s another link.  How many do I have now?  Seven?  Whatever.  Comic Life is fun because you can use speech bubbles, but you can still make a story.  You can also play a practical joke on somebody.  Take a photo of them, then get it onto a computer one way or another (it depends what kind of camera you have), and then put it on Comic Life.  Then you can stretch the picture so the person is really thin and very tall or very short and very fat.  Print the altered picture out and show it to them.  You might get a laugh or two out of it.

This Alice in Wonderland project was a very interesing project.  I had read the book before this, but I had never looked at it this way before.  This project helped me do that.

This shows about where Gareth goes.

I like the book.  It is a very good novel.

Read the book for more info.  Well, I’ll end this post right now, on short notice.  Very short, to be exact.  Bye!

I have made some more pictures for the scenes. Here they are:

That’s the hatter. In case you’re wondering what the green patches are, he has a skin disease.

That’s the March Hare. If you want a picture of the other rabbit, look at the “trial background” in the previous post. He will be on the left.

Hmmm… It looks like the Dormouse is sleeping. That would explain why he’s upside-down.

That guinea-pig is very freaky. Let’s see the other one:

AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!   VERY FREAKY!!!  That one must have gotten its nose stuck in the ground.

I have started using Comic Life also.  I will show you the entire comic when it is finished.

That’s it for this time, readers!

Have you listened to the recording yet? If you have, you should know that Samuel left his mother behind when he went on the Mayflower. What? You didn’t listen to it? Well, now you know. He’s written a letter to her from Plymouth. Please note that the Pilgrim year started on 3/25, so “the ninth month” as it says in the letter, is really November.

Dear Mother,

I have gone on The Mayflower and arrived very far north of Jamestown! We have landed in a place that they call “Cape Cod”. We have made a new set of laws , for the laws in Jamestown no longer exist for us. We call this new set of laws “The Mayflower Compact”. It says that all have equal rights. On the ship, the main mast cracked. We all thought we were lost until we found a screw from the printing press, and be the mast held. And then, in the ninth month, we saw land in the new world. We are building a village in a place that we call Plymouth, in honor of Plymouth, England, the place we set sail from. The Billington boys are getting into lots of trouble. On the ship, they almost set aflame gunpowder, and if they had, thou would not be receiving this letter. Our cabin had not much space, for if we move a small distance, we hit our neighbor.  We are now living in a “common house” that everyone lives in.

Your loving son,

Samuel

Poor Samuel.  The common house was blown up by some sparks.

Dear Mother,

The common house is no more!  It was exploded by some sparks.  We are building individual homes now.  Father is struggling to make one.  If I go to heaven from this, I’ll tell God to save the rest of us.

Your loving and endangered son,

Samuel

Many died, but Samuel was lucky.

Dear Mother,

Praise God, I have survived!  There is lots to hunt in Plimouth.  William Bradford got caught by one leg in an Indian fox trap!  He had to wait for his friends to cut the rope and set him free.

Your loving son and pilgrim who has not written a very long letter this time,

Samuel 

Slavery started in America (although it wasn’t America at that time; it was just a colony of Great Britain) in about the 1600s.  People were taken in chains from western Africa to the U.S.A.  People who died on the journey were simply thrown overboard, and slaves were only fed with water and sometimes a banana.  When they got to America, they were still in chains and were to be “bought” by slave owners.

Slaves would work on a plantation, unless with a 1% chance, they got freed.  If an owner didn’t want the slaves any more, he/she would sell them to a slave market, and then the slave market would sell them to another owner, not set them free.  Sometimes a slave would try to run away.  There were people hired to just patrol some places and punish any slaves that were trying to run.  Slaves could go to places like a store if their owner gave them a pass.  The people who punished the slaves sometimes even killed, but “punishers” had to check for a pass before they did.

Most people think that there were only slaves in the south.  But at one point, there were slaves in New York.  In 1991, someone was digging to make a building and found bodies from the late 1700s.  After doing some tests and finding many more bodies, it was found out that this was a burial ground for slaves.  (Free slaves probably buried them and not the whites, so it’s not like the whites showed any mercy.)  That building they were making obviously never got built, but an amazing site was made.  It is the place, located in lower Manhattan, where most slaves in New York are buried.

If a slave was trying to escape, he/she would travel on the Underground Railroad.  No, it wasn’t an actual railroad; it was a road that slaves took to freedom.  But it wouldn’t free them completely.  Once a slave got to the north, their owner probably would offer a prize to anyone who could capture the slave and bring him/her back.

Forced immigration was cruel, but almost everyone is glad it’s over now.  Hopefully it will never happen again.  And if it does, hopefully we can have another person who can stop it…

I have done a bit more with the script. Remember that? Here’s what I did, including what was already there before:

1. “That’s the judge, because of his great wig.” AT
“And that’s the jury-box, and those 12 creatures, I suppose are the jurors.” AT

2. KS “Herald, read the accusation!” KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “Not yet, not yet! There’s a great deal to come before that!” KS “Call the first witness.” RS “First witness!”

3. HS “I beg pardon, your Majesty, for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.” KS “You ought to have finished. When did you begin?” HS “Fourteenth of March, I think it was.” MHS “Fifteenth.” DS “Sixteenth.” KS “Take off your hat.” HS “It isn’t mine.” KS “Stolen!” HS “I keep them to sell. I’ve none of my own, I’m a hatter.”

4. GP1S “Yay!” (GP1 Suppressed) AT “I’m glad I’ve seen that done, I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court, and I never understood what it meant.” KS “If that’s all you know about it you may stand down.” HS “I can’t go no lower: I’m on the floor as it is.” KS “Then you may sit down.” GP2S “Yay!” (GP2 Suppressed) AT “Come, that finishes the guinea-pigs! Now we shall get on better.”

5. KS “Call the next witness!” (Cook comes to stand) KS “Give your evidence!” CS “Shan’t.” RS “Your majesty must cross-examine this witness.” KS “Well, if I must, I must. What are tarts made of?” CS “Pepper, mostly.” DS “Treacle.” QS “Collar that Dormouse! Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers! (Cook disappears in confusion and Dormouse leaves.)

6. RS “Alice!” (Alice comes up to stand and knocks over jury box.) KS “The trial cannot proceed until all the jury men are back in their proper places. All.” (Alice puts all back in, Bill upside-down.) KS “What do you know about this business?” AS “Nothing” KS “That’s very important.” RS “Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course.” KS “Unimportant, of course I meant.”

7. KS “Silence! Rule 42: All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” AS “I’m not a mile high!” KS “You are.” QS “Nearly two miles high.” AS “Well, I shan’t go, at any rate: besides, that’s not a regular rule; you invented it just now.” KS “It’s the oldest rule in the book.” AS “Then it ought to be No. 1.” KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “There’s more evidence to come yet, please your majesty. This paper has just been picked up.” KS “Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting? RS “No.” KNS “Please, your Majesty, I didn’t write it: and they can’t prove I did. There’s no name signed at the end.” KS “If you didn’t sign it, you must have meant some mischief, or you would have signed it like an honest man.” QS “That proves his guilt.”

8. KS “You never had fits, my dear, I think? QS “Never!” (Queen throws inkbottle at Bill.) KS “Then the words don’t fit you, my dear. (Everyone quiet) KS “It’s a pun! Let the jury consider their verdict! QS “No, no, sentence first! Verdict afterwards!” AS “Stuff and nonsense! The idea of having a sentence first!” QS “Hold your tongue!” AS “I won’t!” QS “Off with her head!” AS “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Pack attack and Alice wakes up)

I have also been making pictures. Here they are:

All right, the king and queen have very tall crowns, and the queen has very long hair.  Anyway, next picture:

That’s the Knave of hearts in chains at the trial.

This post has to come to an end, or it will go on forever.  I guess that’s something the March Hare (who is a very matter-of-fact rabbit–by the way, don’t ask why he’s called that) would say.  But it’s true.  This is getting too long.  Bye!

Eventually these will end up as comics, and since we are only making a few scenes, we left out the parts where there was barely any action.  Comics usually don’t work too well with dialogue.  Here is a list of what happens in some (the list isn’t done yet) of the sections:

1. “That’s the judge, because of his great wig.”  AT
“And that’s the jury-box, and those 12 creatures, I suppose are the jurors.” AT
2. KS “Herald, read the accusation!”  KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “Not yet, not yet!  There’s a great deal to come before that!” KS “Call the first witness.”  RS “First witness!”
3. HS “I beg pardon, your Majesty, for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.”  KS “You ought to have finished.  When did you begin?”  HS “Fourteenth of March, I think it was.”  MHS “Fifteenth.” DS “Sixteenth.” KS “Take off your hat.” HS “It isn’t mine.” KS “Stolen!” HS “I keep them to sell.  I’ve none of my own, I’m a hatter.”
4. GP1S “Yay!” (GP1 suppressed) AT “I’m glad I’ve seen that done, I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,” and I never understood what it meant.”
If you didn’t understand that, don’t freak out.  In other words, freak out.  Here’s a key to it.  All the sentences (or paragraphs) have a mess of capital letters before them.  You will notice that all those messes have “T” or “S” at the end.  That stands for “thoughts” or “speaking”.  The other capital letters indicate who is doing the action.  A=Alice, K=King, R=Rabbit, H=Hatter, GP1=Guinea-pig 1, and GP2=Guinea-pig 2.  I suppose that’s all I’ve been doing since last time I posted.  Soon I’ll be back with more, but for now…Bye!